Millions of people who use smart-health wearable devices are potentially having their personal information exposed.
Aries Security chief executive Brian Markus told Techly that he and his team have discovered a potentially huge concern with the highly popular fitness devices. Using an exploit, they were able to pull personal health data, usernames, passwords and other information from hundreds of internet users during the annual 2014 DEF CON hackers conference.
Those users were within range of Markus and crew’s hardware – meaning anyone with an unsecured device is potentially at risk under the right (or wrong) circumstances.